Show me the link at
www.GOP.com that addresses pro-life issues. I couldn't find one. If it's there, then there is no active link from the homepage, the agenda page, or the nagivation bar.
Your link was for rnc.org
Of course this is all besides the point. The only relevent issue of this thread is that attack on Schwarzenegger and other pro-life Republicans by a few fringe single-issue abortion voters. There is a whole lot more to the GOP than any one issue. And when you attack one Republican, you harm them all.
Now tell me what President Bush has done for the unborn?
Paid some lipservice to the unborn?
Restricted federal funding of stem cell research to existing lines?
Barred clinics in Africa that perform abortions from receiving foreign aid?
Signing a partial birth abortion ban into law?
That's not exactly a forward leaning pro-life crusade there.
He hasn't called for a Constitutional amendment to protect the unborn. He hasn't done anything to roll back wholesale abortion in the US. He's never even suggested it as policy, and he's not going to.
He'll do exactly what most Republicans want, and that is to nibble away at the edges, put some stricter limitations and limit government funding of abortion. He'll never attack the legality of abortion itself.
The reason is for exactly what I said, as demonstrated in the polls I posted. There is no strong movement within the Republican party to outlaw abortion completely. There is only a small fringe with that as their prime agenda.
Here in California, full abortion rights are favored by some 71% of the population, including a
majority of Republicans. Only a mere 22% of the population even wants
stricter limitations. That's not even talking about outlawing it. California will not elect a strict pro-life governor like Tom McClintock. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the most conservative California will go, and I think it is a really good sign that he won by such a large percentage and maintains an even higher approval rating than that. The highest approval rating of any governor in all of California's history.
Despite what you say about him, it is a major step forward for California, and for Republicans in this state. It shows that Republicans can get elected here after all, but just not the religious crusaders.
The divisivness that people like you bring to the party in your constant attacks on Schwarzenegger do not help the party one bit.
As far as JimRob's thread, yes, I saw it. But that is the Texas GOP platform. Texas is not California, nor is it the national party. That just wouldn't fly in California. And you know, in the south, even the Democrats are religiously pious. That doesn't change the fact that their national platform is completely secular, perhaps even anti-religious.
Now of course I was using hyperbole when I said that the national Republican party has forsaken pro-life issues, but it was to make a point, and it's a point I'm sure you are well aware of. You've probably made it yourself. The GOP
is moving away from issues like this, de-emphasising them, striving for a more mainstream appeal under a big tent theory.
The GOP welcomes Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rudi Giuliani, and they will welcome them with raucous enthusiasm at the convention this fall.
I supplied you with the link and you say its dead. It's not dead!
I told you GOP.com and RNC.org link to the same website.
What is wrong with you?
You're in such a blind rage and filled with so much anger that you're not paying attention.
Go to the RNC/GOP website. On the left click "Sitemap", then go to "About GOP" and click on "Party Platform". Then onto "Renewing Family and Community". Read down the page about half way, I guess. It's all there in black and white.
Be nice in the future. Don't be so mean spirited.